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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The survey was pointless.  Looking at several hundred responses, it doesn’t tell anything that was not already detailed in other surveys over the last 2 years.  Further it’s being given during the summer so it’s not going to get near the number of replies that a normal school year survey gets and those already have low participation.  I’m glad this is making some of y’all feel good.  But for me it’s a waste of stakeholder time and some people’s time in CO who are undoubtedly going to have to review, summarize, present and discuss the results.[/quote]

As a teacher, I don't recall a time a superintendent asked me to write my thoughts and opinions. Even at training with members of Central Office, we are often told to put concerns or questions "in a bin" and they will be answered when they can. I appreciated the opportunity and the fact that what teachers wrote was published for all to see. We often feel like we can't say what we are thinking, because we are putting on a show for our supervisors and the community. Teachers actually will have more time to fill out the survey over the summer, and we are sharing it on our social media groups and encouraging everyone to fill it out. I was able to, as a special education teacher, type out what I wanted to say out loud at IEP meetings, where I feel mostly feel silenced and have to be very careful about the way I state things. [/quote]
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Any survey like this is going to get responses all over the map from the community. But there are a lot of very concrete, specific, constructive suggestions in there. It will be interesting to see if they discuss any of this at the BOE meetings in July and August and how they set their schedule for the year.[/quote]

I’m glad you feel the ability to engage.  Truly.  However, the actual content of the responses is not new information.  I read through the first 400 responses word for word and came up with maybe three new things that haven’t read before in survey results/study reports or heard in some type of forum.  I then skipped down a bunch and reviewed another say 400 responses the same way and it was merely repeating what was written before. Maybe different wording, but the issue or topics would be categorized the same. The point being that anyone could have read several other reports/surveys and listened to the presentations to the BOE and gotten the same info (CAIR report, Anti-racist audit, Teacher/Parent/Student climate survey, New Superintendent report,  MD Special Education Report,  Board Testimony, etc. etc.).  Many of these things have specific examples and quoted feedback.  So again, not really new topics or priorities.  And since this survey wasn’t targeted on a specific priority it doesn’t dig for any great depth or nuance.

I’m glad some feel engaged.  Fill out the survey to your hearts content.  But if I was a CO evaluator I’d be annoyed at having to review and summarize information that we already had and could easily direct the new Super towards.[/quote]

Just to further prove I'm not crazy when I say the content is yielding the same results, look at this:

https://moderatelymoco.com/data-driven-decisions-detailed-analysis-of-mcps-superintendents-survey-responses/[/quote]

Yup. The survey was a performative gesture to substantiate his stated claims of listening to the community. But a better way of doing that would have been to spend his first few weeks immersing himself in all of the feedback the system has already gathered and not acted on.[/quote]

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